Chunhua Yu, Xiaofang Huo, Agoston T. Agoston, Xi Zhang, Arianne L. Theiss, Edaire Cheng, Qiuyang Zhang, Alexander Zaika, Thai H. Pham, David H. Wang, Peter E. Lobie, Robert D. Odze, Stuart J. Spechler, and Rhonda F. Souza Esophageal Diseases Center, Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Department of Medicine, Vet...

This article provides an overview of development outcomes from the activities of transnational corporations (TNCs) in extractive industries. Drawing on the author’s experience of working as a geographer around the mines in Papua New Guinea and the global literature on the subject, the economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts of mining and resource extraction in the Asia-Pacific regi...

The diplomatic ties between Africa and Southeast Asia (SEA) have historically been sporadic and erratic. The only country in the SEA that the first decades after independence maintained a relatively narrower link to some African countries was Indonesia, because of political and ideological reasons. Today, trade has gained momentum, being South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria, the largest trading part...

Recently, Northeast Asia has become one of the three largest trade areas, covering approximately 30% of the total trade volume of the world. However, the distribution facilities are saturated due to the increase in the transportation volume within the area and with the European countries. In order to accommodate the increase of the transportation volume, the transportation networking with the m...

This study aims to introduce the potential applicability of traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry in Northeast Asia, including China, Japan, and South Korea. In ancient Northeast Asia, forest policies and practices were based on Fengshui (an old Chinese concept regarding the flow of vital forces), with which forests were managed under community forestry. However, these traditi...

The Pacific Telecommunications Council is a forum and provides an opportunity for a variety of views and perspectives to be heard and to help us in educating each other. The formation of this new and small organization is an important historical process. The significance of the PTC is, in the first place, a recognition of the emergence of a specific region. Fifteen years ago no one in the U.S.A...

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is made up of 21 diverse Pacific Rim economies (table 1), including the United States, and represents a significant regional market for U.S. food and agriculture trade. In FY 1997, the APEC region accounted for more than 60 percent of U.S. agriculture and food exports and 50 percent of imports. Over the past 10 years, APEC has accounted for pra...

The hernagglutinin (HA) of six H5 influenza virus strains isolated from ducks in Japan and China in 1976 to 1996 were analyzed antigenically and genetically. Antigenic analysis using a panel of monoclonal antibodies revealed that the HA of H5 influenza viruses isolated from ducks are antigenically closely related to each other. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that the isolates from ducks in Hok...